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WatchOS 2 beta?

LewisChapman said:
My experience contrasts with yours entirely. Runs smooth and from what I can see everything works.

I assume you are just trying to scare others because imo there has most definetly been worse betas.
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Nope, not trying to scare others. I'm a registered developer and have been since iOS 4, and watchOS 2 beta 1 is one of the buggier releases I've seen come out of Apple - and there have been some doozies.

Not trying to needlessly scare people off. Trying to warn them based on my experience. The choice is, of course, theirs.
 
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ThaRagingAsian said:
thanks for the info! Understood that betas are not stable versions.

Should I use my apple id to sign up for the developer program or create a new one to separate work from personal?
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This is personal preference, just the same as whether you want to buy another (i)phone for business alongside your personal phone.

If you were just looking to get into the betas and see what they are like before others I would suggest enrolling in the public betas. They are (usually) slightly less bug-riddled than the developer previews/betas and also there are no rules being broken by using them as a consumer. It's also free which is a big plus.

In my opinion this Watch OS 2.0 is fit for use and I will be running it on my daily. Had worse beta's before on other devices.
 
DerfBWH said:
Nope, not trying to scare others. I'm a registered developer and have been since iOS 4, and watchOS 2 beta 1 is one of the buggier releases I've seen come out of Apple - and there have been some doozies.

Not trying to needlessly scare people off. Trying to warn them based on my experience. The choice is, of course, theirs.
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What sort of issues are you seeing, that would make you say it is one of the buggier releases you have seen?
 
kjm18 said:
Had watch on since last night without charging and is now 43% battery, only annoyance is weather isn't syncing with my iPhone as says the watch is in the South Atlantic Ocean
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I had this.( the South Atlantic thing) I had to unpair then repair the watch for this to go back to normal . I did setup as a new watch not backup on second pairing .

I'm also seeing really bad battery life , it went into reserve mode at 3pm for me. I like others normally go to bed with 50% left. iOS 9 on my iPhone has also drained my phone right down to the 10% too by 3pm, again normally in the 60s/70s when I go sleep.
 
Can't install apps on watch saying watch is out of storage when nothing is even loaded on. Even did a restart repair.
 
I had the same issue, not sure which fixed it but, if your iPhone is below 20% battery, plug it in and try. If not install a app on the watch you've never used. Then after successful installation try installing your others. I'm not sure which got it for me... but it's working now! LOL

Halamire said:
Can't install apps on watch saying watch is out of storage when nothing is even loaded on. Even did a restart repair.
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IllusionEntity said:
On the iPhone yes. The watch will be stuck on 2.0
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And considering you need ios 9 for WatchOS 2.0 to work with the phone.. anyone who has upgraded to watchOS, myself included may have to make a decision should a future beta be almost unusable. Ditch the Watch for a while, or put up with a big bug.
 
Is anyone else not receiving taptic notifications when you get an email on the watch? The email appears in the notification center on the watch, but I don’t get any taptic taps. I am getting taptic feedback for all my other notifications.
 
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Halamire said:
Can't install apps on watch saying watch is out of storage when nothing is even loaded on. Even did a restart repair.
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codeboye said:
I had the same issue, not sure which fixed it but, if your iPhone is below 20% battery, plug it in and try. If not install a app on the watch you've never used. Then after successful installation try installing your others. I'm not sure which got it for me... but it's working now! LOL
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I just went into Usage on the Watch app on my iPhone, after the fields populated, I was able to install my apps with no problem.
 
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DrBlueBox said:
And considering you need ios 9 for WatchOS 2.0 to work with the phone.. anyone who has upgraded to watchOS, myself included may have to make a decision should a future beta be almost unusable. Ditch the Watch for a while, or put up with a big bug.
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Exactly. I'm in iOS 9 on my 6+. My watch is going to remain on 1.0.1
 
Battery life definitely seems to have taken a big hit for me. I’m at 5% after a bit more than 12 hours. Normally I’d have at least 50% left after 15 or 16 hours. I’m going to try to wipe the watch and repair it and set it up as a new watch later tonight and then we’ll see how it goes tomorrow.
 
BrettDS said:
Is anyone else not receiving taptic notifications when you get an email on the watch? The email appears in the notification center on the watch, but I don’t get any taptic taps. I am getting taptic feedback for all my other notifications.
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I have had intermittent notifications of phone calls today. I restarted the watch at one point and it seemed to get better. My battery was a wreck though. Shut down at 7pm when I normally have 50% at 10pm. My 6+ has been really bad today too. I had it plugged in to a 5W charger and it was just holding steady, not charging.

Edit: Wow. The watch is taking forever to charge now! It has gone up 4% in about 30 minutes! It went down while I was setting it up while still on the charger...
 
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Armen said:
The dev page says you can't go back to 1.0.1
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It says that about the iPhone too, but its not true. It is possible to go back on the phone by putting the device into DFU mode. I don’t know that anyone knows if there is a DFU mode for the watch yet or how to put it in DFU mode if it does exist. It may be possible to go back, but no one knows how yet.
 
BrettDS said:
Is anyone else not receiving taptic notifications when you get an email on the watch? The email appears in the notification center on the watch, but I don’t get any taptic taps. I am getting taptic feedback for all my other notifications.
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Just to follow up on this, I wound up unpairing the watch and setting it up as new because I was hoping it might help with this as well as my battery life issues (the watch died after a bit less than 13 hours. Normally it goes 16 or 17 hours and has 50% remaining)

It’s too early to tell if it helped with battery life (but I’m not feeling too hopeful), however it did fix this issue. I’m now getting taptic feedback for my email notifications.
 
BrettDS said:
It says that about the iPhone too, but its not true. It is possible to go back on the phone by putting the device into DFU mode. I don’t know that anyone knows if there is a DFU mode for the watch yet or how to put it in DFU mode if it does exist. It may be possible to go back, but no one knows how yet.
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If you did somehow get the watch into DFU mode how would you transfer the OS? Probably through the diagnostics port would be my guess.
 
Armen said:
If you did somehow get the watch into DFU mode how would you transfer the OS? Probably through the diagnostics port would be my guess.
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Its all speculation, but the diagnostic port is a good guess. Its also possible that the watch could still establish a Bluetooth connection in a DFU type mode and be updated that way. The pebble watch has a similar ’emergency’ firmware update mode that still works over Bluetooth.
 
BrettDS said:
Its all speculation, but the diagnostic port is a good guess. Its also possible that the watch could still establish a Bluetooth connection in a DFU type mode and be updated that way. The pebble watch has a similar ’emergency’ firmware update mode that still works over Bluetooth.
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I wonder if the DFU mode steps for the iphone work on the watch? of course home=crown, favorites = power.
 
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